"Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

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Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

Nate Silver

#Differences Quotes #Self Quotes #Serenity Quotes

“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”
“The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.”
“Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.”
“I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.”
“I might tell a story about somebody else, but I don't sit there and do a story about somebody snitching on me selling coke because people know I didn't sell coke. So I just try to keep it real but still try to do it in a creative way.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.”
“I got a fascination with food.”
“There's a lot of guys who have great technique, people practicing a lot and you hear them, but there's not that many people who when you hear them, you go, "Man, that guy must practice a lot," right? Then you hear Miles Davis play, and you go, "Man, I had a girlfriend like that." That's a whole another level of musicianship.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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